Supplier selection is one of the most critical activities of purchasing management in supply chain and managers increasingly face sourcing decisions of how to selected suppliers. This paper illustrates the development of a sourcing decision that provides support for the buyer firm in supply chain.The models developed here, involved selecting between single and dual sourcing. Outside and local s...

supplier selection is one of the most critical activities of purchasing management in supply chain and managers increasingly face sourcing decisions of how to selected suppliers. this paper illustrates the development of a sourcing decision that provides support for the buyer firm in supply chain.the models developed here, involved selecting between single and dual sourcing. outside and local s...

State-of-the-art software repositories support optimistic versioning and hence the concurrent editing of one artifact by multiple developers is possible. The drawback of this method is the time-consuming, manual merge process when conflicting changes occur. This is a bigger problem when the artifacts are models. Although similar kinds of conflicts frequently reoccur, current systems hardly prov...

the use of value engineering (ve) methodology in construction industry has grown significantly, mainly in view of its extensive benefits. the main task in evaluation phase of ve workshop is to assess alternative ideas, proposed for each function. this phase of ve, hence, could be deemed as a multi criteria decision making (mcdm) problem. this paper presents a fuzzy decision support system (dss)...

Quality Function Deployment (QFD) has been traditionally used as a planning tool primarily for product development and quality improvement. In this context, many people have used QFD for making decisions on how to prioritize critical product areas from a customer perspective. However, it is the position of the author that the QFD process can be viewed as a decision support system that would enc...

This paper exploits pneumonia treatments recordings from a Danish production facility to develop a decision support system (DSS) for on-site handling of the disease. Simple visualizations of the gathered data provide an intuitive retrospective tool to identify problematic areas within the facility or illustrate implicit strategies applied by the workers. To achieve an operational level DSS, a m...

This paper exploits pneumonia treatments recordings from a Danish production facility to develop a decision support system (DSS) for on-site handling of the disease. Simple visualizations of the gathered data provide an intuitive retrospective tool to identify problematic areas within the facility or illustrate implicit strategies applied by the workers. To achieve an operational level DSS a ma...

Resource planning in large-scale construction projects has been a complicated management issue requiring mechanisms to facilitate decision making for managers. In the present study, a computer-aided simulation model is developed based on concurrent control of resources and revenue/expenditure. The proposed method responds to the demand of resource management and scheduling in shell material emb...

Nowadays, the necessity of accurate quantitative decision support methods is becoming a critical subject for managers as rivalry between organizations caused a more fragile economic environment and brand reputation is becoming more important. Furthermore, dealing with incidents after they happened is not accepted by customers anymore. Managers require powerful decision making tools to support t...